At Madhya Pradesh Farmers' Protest, 5 Reported Dead, Unclear Who Fired | Read
Five farmers were killed after firing at a protest in western Madhya Pradesh, marking an escalation of violence as a rural strike demanding debt relief spread. The state police said it could not confirm the number of deaths; news agency ANI reported five casualties. Home Minister Bhupendra Singh told NDTV that the police did not shoot at the crowd in the central city of Mandsaur, 325 kms from the capital of Bhopal.
